Duration
4 days
Prerequisites:
You should:
- Have a basic knowledge of IBM MQ V8 concepts, either through successful completion of course Technical Introduction to IBM MQ (WM102G), Technical Introduction to IBM MQ, or through equivalent practical experience
- Be familiar with and able to use standard functions within the operating system that is used in the lab exercises
- Have a basic knowledge of TCP/IP
Audience
This intermediate course is designed for technical professionals who require the skills to administer any of the IBM
MQ queue managers except IBM MQ for z/OS or IBM MQ for iSeries.
Objectives
- Plan the implementation of IBM MQ
- Install IBM MQ
- Perform basic customization and administration tasks
- Enable a queue manager to exchange messages with another queue manager
- Use a trigger message and a trigger monitor to start an application to process messages
- Implement basic queue manager restart and recovery procedures
- Identify the cause of a problem
- Plan for and implement basic IBM MQ security features
- Use accounting and statistics messages to monitor the activities in an IBM MQ system
- Use IBM MQ sample programs to test queue manager, queue, channel, and client configuration
Course Outline
- Course introduction
- IBM MQ review
- Installing IBM MQ
- Creating a basic configuration
- Exercise: Using commands to create queue managers and queues
- Introduction to IBM MQ Explorer
- Exercise: Using IBM MQ Explorer to create queue managers and queues
- Introduction to the Message Queue Interface (MQI)
- Exercise: Using IBM MQ sample programs to test the configuration
- Implementing trigger messages and monitors
- Exercise: Implementing a trigger monitor
- Message persistence and recovery
- Exercise: Using a media image to restore a queue
- Identifying the cause of problems
- Exercise: Running an IBM MQ trace
- Implementing distributed queuing
- Exercise: Connecting queue managers
- Implementing basic security
- Exercise: Controlling access to IBM MQ
- IBM MQ clients
- Exercise: Connecting an IBM MQ client
- Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
- Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance
- Exercise: Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance
- JMS administration overview
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.